Here is a little link for the masses to help describe the significance of the proposed $100 million dollar budget cuts by President Obama. I think you will enjoy it. If you understand it that is...
http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/
Enjoy!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Has Equality Been Reached to the Point of Inequality?
Without trivializing the importance of continually seeking equality of opportunity in our country, I cannot help but think the time has come to begin to evaluate some of the older laws designed to secure equality.
Affirmative action is a program which continues to baffle me as minorities are given advantages that caucasions are not. Lower admission standards and more opportunity for financial aid at the college level, and specific laws/provisions for guaranteeing more opportunity in the work place for minorities. At one point in time, I know these standards may have been needed, but now, with multiple reports and court cases of reverse discrimination, it is time to pull them back.
Another issue in the fight for equality came in the case of voting rights. There are multiple laws and protections in place to guarantee all U.S. citizens, who are of age, the right to vote. These laws contain protections for all people and processes to prosecute those who might try to take away another's right to vote. But are these laws selective in their interpretation of who they protect? I attached a nice article that you won't find in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or on the Yahoo! frontpage about possible reverse discrimination in voting rights. I want to hear your thoughts after reading the article. Leave me a nice little comment so we can discuss later.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/24/voting-rights-official-calls-black-panther-dismissal-travesty-justice/
Enjoy and good luck!
Coach Nokes
Affirmative action is a program which continues to baffle me as minorities are given advantages that caucasions are not. Lower admission standards and more opportunity for financial aid at the college level, and specific laws/provisions for guaranteeing more opportunity in the work place for minorities. At one point in time, I know these standards may have been needed, but now, with multiple reports and court cases of reverse discrimination, it is time to pull them back.
Another issue in the fight for equality came in the case of voting rights. There are multiple laws and protections in place to guarantee all U.S. citizens, who are of age, the right to vote. These laws contain protections for all people and processes to prosecute those who might try to take away another's right to vote. But are these laws selective in their interpretation of who they protect? I attached a nice article that you won't find in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or on the Yahoo! frontpage about possible reverse discrimination in voting rights. I want to hear your thoughts after reading the article. Leave me a nice little comment so we can discuss later.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/24/voting-rights-official-calls-black-panther-dismissal-travesty-justice/
Enjoy and good luck!
Coach Nokes
Friday, September 17, 2010
Said it better...
When I first got to college, one of the best pieces of advice I received was in writing and speaking, someone has probably already done it better. In that mindset, I draw upon several historical quotes to see what you think about them and how the quotes relate to today's society, economy and government.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
Benjamin Franklin
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Thomas Jefferson
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
Thomas Jefferson
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Thomas Jefferson
"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
Theodore Roosevelt
"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
Patrick Henry
Well, there they all are. Please enjoy and pick one to respond to. Happy writing!
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
Benjamin Franklin
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Thomas Jefferson
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
Thomas Jefferson
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Thomas Jefferson
"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
Theodore Roosevelt
"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
Patrick Henry
Well, there they all are. Please enjoy and pick one to respond to. Happy writing!
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